Just as Jack was feeling excited, he heard movement behind him.
He instinctively turned his head and saw Xi Ya waking up in a daze.
The girl sat against the mountain wall. Her face was still pale, and her lips held little color, but at least she could sit up by herself now.
"Jack—" Xi Ya's voice was full of confusion as she looked at the scene before her.
Xi Ya indeed had every reason to be confused. She had thought they were both dead, yet not only had they survived, even the injuries on their bodies had completely healed.
And there was also Jack's obviously abnormal state just now. She clearly wanted to ask, but in the end, she asked nothing.
"We're safe for now," Jack said in a low voice. "But—I found that the signals from our emergency wristbands have all been blocked, so the person who killed them may very well have accomplices. This isn't over yet—"
Jack did not explain too clearly, but Xi Ya quickly understood and nodded lightly to show that she got it.
Jack continued, "I need to go out and deal with the traces now. You stay here."
As he spoke, he pulled the short knife from their luggage and handed it to Xi Ya. "Hold onto this. Stay here and keep yourself hidden. Don't run around. If I don't come back for a long time—you find somewhere to hide on your own. Don't wait for me."
Xi Ya opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to say, "I'll go with you."
But the words reached her lips and were swallowed back down, because she realized that Jack's voice was incredibly calm—confident, even!
She truly had no idea what had happened to Jack, but she knew very well that it could not have been